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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 653, 18 March 1879, Page 2

. A Fiddler " taken down a peg." — ; \ There was recently a concert on the skirts of Dumfarlin', and the audience comprised some amateurs from a mine. In the course of {he evening tKe** !l*aganini of the orchestra stepp^dJpr ward to. play \\ a solo on the violin, 1 :' M "H»\ ambitious selection WatftHe I '' 'famous w ' ' Carniv»l^"th<ragh whioh he (Btruggied; . , /, with; exemplary courage,; ,, aiid at> ..the^ , end he dropped his bow v and ' fiddle by" ' his side, right .and Afft, ,an<^ made obeisance, expecting a burst' of 'applause. ; . instead of which his ears wers astonished *Iv by an exclamation from the .baok, seats : — " I say, fiddlef, aW ye gaiiiP to be a' nichttunin" that fiddle pfMJßlusfyprr are ye gdan 'tb/gi6: BSf« tun,e-4'/ Tse|_ interpreters of,ola»sicall ,muflic to , thp : .million, please take the niiii ' "' "" It is stated that-the Melbourne eveningpapers haVe reduced the .profits of the. Melbourne. Argus by £30,000 a year id \ advertisements alone. , r T ,"._ m ::•?■•> r,V;Vj ) . { .if